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World Backup Day Tips from Carbonite - Secure Your Photos in the Cloud

by
Lynnette Nolan
| Mar 30, 2012

If you lost all of your digital photos, what would you be willing to sacrifice to get them back? For World Backup Day 2012 keep your cellphones and coffee – just make sure you’re backing up your photos online.

World Backup Day Backup Tip #5: Secure Your Photos in the Cloud

Download photos/videos off of all your devices: It’s easy to lose a phone or camera and lose all the photos stored on its internal memory. Make sure to download all your photos and video from your device to your computer.

Protect photos with more than just a disk drive: Computers are subject to all sorts of problems—from corrupted files to damaged hard drives to theft—that can make your photos disappear forever. Don’t rely on the one copy of your precious photos and videos on your computer, back them up.

Go to the cloud: Keep your photos and videos safe from disaster by backing them up online. With an online backup service like Carbonite, your memories are spared from computer meltdowns, theft, floods, fire or other disasters that can destroy your computers, external hard drives and photo devices.

By backing your photos up online, not only are they secure, but they’re accessible from nearly any internet connected device (including your smartphone!) at any time via the cloud.

Don't have Carbonite? Begin backing up today by starting a free trial.